May 23, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds The Fallon statue controversy continues. The Pueblo Unido de San Jose – Coalition will bring its concerns to City Hall Thursday evening June 7. The group appeared. at City appeared at City Hall this past Tuesday. May 15. The Tuesday meeting was the last evening Council meeting before the …
From our Editor – Last Friday. May 18, a City of San Jose employee in Mayor Thomas McEnery’s office of Public information independently acted to restrict the press by banning Yolanda Reynolds, a reporter of this newspaper, from attending a press conference scheduled for Monday, May 21. Such an action only occurs in countries where …
May 23, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Monday’s mayoral press conference with the Hispanic media not only provided an opportunity for the Hispanic media to ask questions, but became a forum for a number of other concerned variety of issues. The news conference was held Monday morning in the Mayor’s sixth floor conference room. The Mayor’s …
FALLON ISSUE DOMINATES HISPANIC MEDIA PRESS CONFERENCE Read More »
May 9, 1900 By Yolanda Reynolds La Oferta Review recently ran a series of interviews that this reporter had with the mayoral candidates. The questions asked of them touched on some key issues confronting the Hispanic community. The questions were as follows: The perception within the community of an unequal distribution of city services and …
May 9, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Dr. Roberto Cruz, founding president of the National Hispanic University last week announced that the University was making San Jose its new headquarters. This announcement was made atSupervisor Gonzales’ “Speakers Forum“ held at the Le Baron Hotel, Wednesday at noon, May 2. The National Hispanic University (NHU) was founded …
May 2, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Policy makers and others in the community are asking why there is opposition in the Hispanic community to the Fallon statue as well as to other recent actions such as the proposed takeover of the Studio Theater. The statue has become a symbol upon which the community has expressed …
April 25, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds In 1981, while in the U.S. Senate, S.I. Hayakawa introduced a Constitutional amendment to make English the official language of the United States. His attempt was not successful. However, Hayakawa and his followers have since formed a group named U.S. English, whose goal “is to make English the official …
April 25, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds Latino Arts Groups came together Sunday afternoon at Prush Park. They met to continue discussions begun at the Community Meeting hosted by Vice Mayor Alvarado last month at Mother Olsen’s Inn. At Sunday’s meeting, Vice Mayor Alvarado spoke to the group regarding a proposed solution to the Fallon statue …
Vice Mayor Blanca Alvarado tentatively proposes a new location for Fallon Statue Read More »
April 18, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds La Oferta Review recently interviewed and reported the responses of the mayoral candidates who early on announced their intent to run for that office early in the campaign. Several more citizens announced their intent to run for the Mayor’s seat just before the deadline for announcing mayoral candidacy was …
Louis Garza and Don Houston, Mayoral Candidates say: “There is a need for change” Read More »
April 4, 1990 By Yolanda Reynolds A statue of Captain Thomas Fallon on a horse in military garb and raising an American flag over San Jose, is on its way to this city. It is to be located at Plaza Park directly across from the Fairmont Hotel. A Mercury News editorial states that it (the …